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Yahoo heads for fourth CEO since 2009 as Scott Thompson goes

Embattled Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson has left the company, Yahoo announced Sunday, after more than a week of controversy over questions about embellishments to his CV.
Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson apologises to employees for scandal

Yahoo CEO Scott Thompson says he's sorry, but is not admitting any wrongdoing.
CERT warns of targeted gas pipeline firm 'spear phishing' attacks

The United States Industrial Control Systems Cyber Emergency Response Team (ICS-CERT) has issued a warning about an active "spear phishing" campaign targeting companies in the natural gas pipeline sector.
Yahoo CEO and the missing computer science degree

The Yahoo board is to review a discrepancy in the resume of its CEO, Scott Thompson, and "make an appropriate disclosure" to its shareholders.
UK government backs new 'smart cities' consortium

Philips, McLaren Electronics and Hitachi Consulting are among a group of companies that have agreed to work together to develop technologies that will enable the construction of smart cities in the UK.
Harvard, MIT invest £38 mil into free online learning portal edX

An online education organisation backed and funded by MIT and Harvard University will use open-source technology to offer free classes over the Internet, the two schools announced Wednesday at a press conference.
Microsoft hires mainly Yahoo researchers for new New York research lab

Microsoft is opening Thursday a research lab in New York city that aims to benefit from interaction with the academic and tech communities in the metropolitan area, as well as attract new talent to Microsoft, the company said.
Aspera helps Japanese genetics institute ease file transfer

The Japanese National Institute of Genetics (NIG) has chosen to deploy Aspera?s web-based Connect Server software to support its research in the field of life sciences.
Iran admits to cyberattacks in several government agencies

The Iranian government acknowledged today that authorities have found evidence of recent cyberattacks against several agencies, according to reports by state-sponsored media outlets.
'Hyperspeed signalling' could prevent cyber attacks, claim researchers

Security engineers at the University of Tulsa have found a way to identify cyber attacks before they reach their target, enabling network administrators to take pre-emptive measures to protect their IT systems.

Latest Features

Virtualisation - Don't let security lag behind technology maturity

Virtualisation is mainstream, with virtualised servers, storage, networking and software featuring in most enterprise IT departments. Applications and workloads are assigned to virtual machines (VMs) and moved from machine to machine as a matter of course, and as a result, deploying physical servers is now the exception rather than the rule.
Why is Instagram so popular?

If you're an active social-media user, you can't deny the phenomenon of Instagram--its trendy derivatives were a hit with PCWorld readers in 2011--and now the app, already popular among iOS gadget owners, is available for Android users as well.
Passion for location data spawns balloons, art photos and 'experiential maps'

Amid the excited rhetoric about the profit potential in location data, the Where 2012 conference this week also exhibited another sign of a truly hot technology: passion projects with no commercial value at all.
Intuit brings Big Data to small businesses and consumers

When you think Big Data, products such as QuickBooks and TurboTax may not spring to mind. However, Intuit's 'Big Data for the Little Guy' initiative lets individuals and businesses make queries on the data Intuit has collected from its (willing) users.
Private cloud storage - Is there a best way to set up your solution?

Given that cloud computing is still emerging, it shouldn't come as a surprise that opinions vary widely on the best way to architect the storage. In fact, it seems likely that there is no such panacea - different types of private cloud almost always require different approaches.
Ads in mobile apps aren't just annoying - they're risky, too

Many mobile apps include ads that can threaten users' privacy and network security, according to North Carolina State University researchers.
Tangled web: Facebook, SEO and black-hat tactics colliding (still)

A few decades ago, some genius had this outrageous idea: "Let's put everything online." Everything. Measureless reams of information all piled up on the World Wide Web. The audacity of this concept should not go unappreciated.
Intel Data Centre CTO: Moore's Law is far from over

Moore's Law will continue to be a viable business proposition for many years to come, because when it is no longer possible to scale in two dimensions, chip manufacturers will simply grow in the third dimension, according to Steve Pawlowski, CTO of Intel's Digital Enterprise Group.
Too many connections weakens networks, says university study

When it comes to connecting networks or other systems together, it is best to have many, but not too many, connections, mathematicians have found.
10 questions for IntraLinks CTO John Landy

Find out about the challenges facing the modern CTO and how to oversee a large team like former software engineer John Landy.

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